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Through two planting seasons the Farm Board has campaigned against the surplus incubus, not only by Legge shows but by circulars to farmers, advertisements in the rural Press, harangues over the radio. Last week James Clifton Stone, new chairman of the Federal Farm Board, made his first excursion to the midWest to continue the "Legge shows," shout again the gospel of crop reduction. He addressed wheat co-operatives in Hutchinson, Kan. and Enid, Okla. As best he could he reiterated Mr. Legge's arguments, used the same threats, the same prayers...
Edited by CLIFTON FURNESS...
...Midnight Frolic. In 1920 she married Cinemactor Richard Barthelmess, and the same year her charm and intelligence got her a part in Mr. Ziegfeld's Sally. The Hayday came in 1923, when she starred in her own show, Mary Jane McKane, and when she and spindleshanked Clifton Webb sang and danced to "Two Little Lovebirds" in Sunny...
Musical?A M E R i c A ' s SWEETHEART (splendid, with Rodgers & Hart music); FINE & DANDY (Joe Cook & machines); GIRL CRAZY (splendid, with George & Ira Gershwin music); THE NEW YORKERS (splendid, with Cole Porter music); THREE'S A CROWD (Clifton Webb, Libby Holman, "Admiral" Fred Allen); You SAID IT (Funnyman Lou Holtz as a collegian...
...Board's $12,000 per-year chairman and chief sponsor of its market program, would resign shortly after March 4 to return to his $100,000 per-year post as head of International Harvester Co. last week became an accepted fact. In his place was foreseen James Clifton Stone, vice chairman and tobacco's representative, who was expected to sheer the Board away from its present market program. Though Chairman Legge would not give a yes-or-no answer, he did say: "If a street car were to run over me tonight, the Board would go on exactly...